But I think the subjunctive in still in very good health in North America, especially after verbs like suggest, propose, recommend, ask, and related nouns and adjectives. I teach the subjunctive to advanced students and mark their papers wrong and correct their oral production if they fail to use it (which seldom happens, since we use the subjunctive in Portuguese too, and much more extensively and with a myriad of verb endings that I'm sure everybody has heard of).

Oh, thank you so much for doing that. I've always thought that the subjunctive was more or less automatic in those cases and no one in North America would use the indicative there (that would probably be something interesting to research as well, did those results come from all English-speaking pages or from a specific country/region? Can you refine the search so only North American pages will be displayed? I don't know, the indicative looks so weird to me in those examples, maybe because of my Romance language background.

I honestly don't know how to refine the search to just North America. It would be interesting though.

To my ear, the lack of subjunctive (where I would employ it), sounds as grating as the double negative in English, but to be fair, the verbs listed above do not always take the subjunctive even in a conservative prescriptive grammar, so my results are somewhat skewed.

For example,

I propose that he is admired for his outrageousness.

I propose that he be admired for his outrageousness.

The first sentense meaning:

It is my proposition that he is admired (be so many people)...

The second meaning;

It is my proposal that he (should) be admired....

Apo

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I really should learn to distinguish between Swedish subjunctives and optatives. But by any other name, count me in the Subjunctive Fan Club.

Try http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=421&. I'm still undecided, though, as to whether the Num. 6:24 Hebrew יְבָרֶכְךָ jbarechna (?) is future, which would make the Aronitic Blessing "Herren kommer att..." (The Lord will...), or if it's intensive/iterative or causative or factitive or whatever.

There are some other ways on my HD, but to be Unicode compatible, I just use Word: Insert: Symbol and go for something like Arial Unicode MS. All the dotty things are there. There will seldom be a need for me to write longer sentences on my own. For any extended passages, those would be Bible quotes that I copy from the 'net or my HD sources.